Description

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

From the makers of the Cities in Motion franchise, the game boasts a fully realized transport system. It also includes the ability to mod the game to suit your play style as a fine counter balance to the layered and challenging simulation. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!

Multi-tiered and challenging simulation: Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios.

Extensive local traffic simulation: Colossal Orders extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted transport systems.

Districts and Policies: Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.

Extensive modding support: Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import them into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.

New king in city building

Sim City has been dethroned by Paradox. They bring their usual in-depth quality to city building and it is great. With that said, as always with Paradox, there is substantial DLC that needs to be considered when you plunge into a new series.

Great casual game

Great alternative to SIM city. Good graphics, but the traffic is almost game-breakingly bad. In every late game, it rapidly becomes a game of trying to fix roads and connecting everything better, instead of making your ideal city. Other than that, fun game.

Great Game - Poor Performance

While the game is great and has plenty of features, on a high end MacBook, it struggles. There is always stuttering and a high demand for the CPU. I feel this could all easily be fixed, but it hasn't been. I'm holding out on the hope that they fix these issues in the future.

Best City Simulation out there

This is absolutly the best City Simulation I've ever played.Great game with lot's of possibilities for city creation.Some DLC features could already be in the base game (e.g. Natural Disasters). But this is ok.Definetly worth buying!

A Wonderful Game

I love this game. The graphics are wonderful to look at, sound designer did a great job with atmosphere. This game ran like butter on my Mac Pro 2.8ghz Quad Core(2010) with Radeon 7950 3GB.I highly recommend this for a city builder.

Fun, but a bit easy

This is a great game, the graphics are great and it definitely scratches the creation itch you might have. That being said I feel the game doesn't have a lot in the way of a challenge. I'm by no means a great city creator, but my city is thriving and I haven't put much thought into it to be honest. It's my first trial by fire run and I'm killing it...kind of takes away my motivation to start a new city. All that being said, there are a ton of micromanagement options for those who like delving deep so it has potential to eat up your life. Fun game but be weary of the longevity if you're a casual. 8.5/10